United States Antitrust Law In The Alcoa Case

additionally, the decision in Alcoa case had a vast international response, because other countries had made efforts to block such “long hand” of United States antitrust law and enacted various national law provisions such as The Protection of Trading Interest law 1980 enacted in Unikted kingdom, the objective of which was to control the extent of application of United States antitrust law in their jurisdictions. However, it can be argued that such measures taken by other countries now can be considered as obsolete, because recently countries are following the cooperation approach rather than blocking measures. European aluminium producers to monopolize the aluminium market. However, Alcoa argued that most of the cartel's activities took
place outside the United States, and such activities were beyond the reach of US jurisdiction. Therefore, Justice Learned Hand changed the pre-existing view that the Sherman Act applied only